Titonka Hosts Parents Night Amid Basketball Action
Seneca and Titonka clash in key girls and boys games with Titonka aiming to extend a six game run while inviting mothers to attend. Gilts and boys faced Luverne and Laverne in recent weeks as Geraldine Bruns led the girls with 12 points and Titonka eyed a highlight matchup this season.
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Ther
Seneca
Titonka
Bancroft
Luverne
Laverne
Ialf
Geraldine Bruns
Three Lamps in Titan Lighting Contest Declared
Three lamps will be awarded to Titanka homes judged best for holiday decorating. Floor lamp goes to top home, table lamp to second, pin-up lamp to third. Three judges named by Interstate Power Co and Titanica Lions Club will tour town to choose winners. rounds and identities kept private.
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Interstate Power Co
Titanica Lions Club
Farm Bureau Workers Set Membership Drive at 600
An all day meeting was held Monday at the Algona Legion hall for Farm Bureau workers in Kossuth County. Last week in Bancroft 76 teams of two were formed to solicit new members. County agent A. L. Brown cited last year's total of 404 and set a 600 member target for this year. J. C. Shaw of Wesley chairs the organization committee.
In 1904 Tuberculosis Deaths Fall Behind Hope
In 1904, 202 per 100000 died from tuberculosis, dropping to 49 per 100000 by 1938. The note asserts tuberculosis can be wiped out.
Christmas Pageant and Church Program at Ramsey Reform Church
A detailed listing of the Ramsey Reform Church Christmas program including scenes from a Schnucker Reader pageant, a first portion with processional and multiple recitations, songs, scripture readings, and a large Christmas tableau with named participants and scenes. The program culminates in a grand finale with carols and a chorus assisting in renditions.
College Survey To Visit 800 Iowa Farms This Winter
Iowa State College in cooperation with the U S Department of Agriculture conducts a farm survey over three weeks. Twenty students will visit 800 Iowa farms to collect data on farm population movements credit income and related trends using randomized section numbers to designate visits.
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Towa State College
A. L. Brown
Raymond J. Jessen
Iowa State College
United States Department of Agriculture
Iowa
Christmas Operetta Invitation and Class Program
The first grade pupils are busy with their part in the Christmas program. We extend an invitation to our grade program Friday afternoon. We also will have our gift exchanges in our own room after the program. We hope everyone will have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Richard Meyer has chicken pox.
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Hoon
Caskey
iAll
Handy Home Makers Club
Gladys Ann Smith
Irene Rippentrop
Anna Ricks
Billy Boyken
Missouri
Richard Downs
Richard Meyer
Farm Interview Question Raises Mapping Doubt
A quoted remark questions if a spot on the map will show a farm to be interviewed. The fragment hints at uncertainty about locating the farm for a potential interview.
Good Hope Lutheran Christmas Services and Program Schedule
Good Hope Lutheran announces English language services on December 24 at 7 00 p m for children with a Sunday school program including about 76 participants with recitations dialogs solos duets and group singing. Christmas Day service at 10 00 a m with a Luther League electing officers and a confirmation class not held Saturday.
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Good Hope
Sim
Luther League
Arnold Brandt
George Alke
Alvina Heesch
Herbert Rakow
Syeaccsey
Christmas Program At Congregational Church
Sunday evening service features a full Christmas program with songs by Beginners and Primary Classes and a Christmas Eve vesper. The roster lists Christine Hagen and Don Bonacker as performers along with a large group of children and adults including Callies, Hoon, Bonacker, Bonacker, and Budlong.
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Joan Hagen
Shirley
Sharon Callies
Wdike
Danny Bonacker
Glenda McColley
Jimmy
Junior Snyder
Anton Boeckholdt
Jean Hagen
Dawn Bonacker
Donna Rae Callies
Keith Bruns
Mr. Gordon
Lawrence Miller
Kathleen
Mary Hoon
Keith Young
Betty
Dolores Isebrand
Joseph
Paul Gartner
Mary
Jacqueline Callies
Shepherds
Donald Budlong
Marlin Bonacker
Jack Hoon
Robert Pink
Louis Larson
Henry Huisinga
Gloodnight
Dorothy Jean Dunmire
Training Schools And Follow Ups Training Report
The adult extension course Keeping the Home Well furnished and Attractive expands to most townships in the county. Ruth Seaton Hicks reports 15 training schools reached 187 local leaders from 26 townships, first lesson Window Treatment. Second lesson Solving Furnishing Problems shows nine townships with 29 follow up meetings drawing 208 attendees from 183 individuals and 1765 homes represented. Some leaders’ homes not counted. eighteen people took the first lesson individually. several townships reported varied meeting counts and attendees. two townships have yet to report and eight schools remain for lesson two. Christmas Seals aid the sick and protect the well.
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Ruth Seaton Hicks
Fenton Township
Jed
Prairie Township
LaVerne
Irvington
Buffalo
German
Hebron
Burt
Sherman
Portland
Swea
Harrison
Riverdale
Cresco
Ramsey
Use Your Christmas Seals And Also Pay for Them
Unpaid Christmas Seals linger in homes as deceased soldiers in the tuberculosis war. The local tuberculosis association urges residents to redeem seals with one penny per seal to fund its 1940 program and protect families from the disease.
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Tuberculosis Association
District Court Terms and Local Criminal Acts
Judge Fred M Hudson of Poca shontas presided at the Kos suth district court last week taking the Pierce Desmond case under advisement. The three day equity trial featured 21 witnesses with Harrington Inowe for the plaintiff and Hutchison Hutchison for the defendant. Pierce testified he sold his south wide cafe to Dermand and agreed not to enter the cafe business for three years in Algona. Mrs C T Wilson sold the north side cafe to Pierce. Dermand claims payment due while Pierce contends Homan owns the business. Divorces granted included Marie Louise Pedersen from Marten Pedersen Ruth Nasby from Clinton B Nasby and Irene Wibben from Tony Wibben on cruelty grounds. Julius Erstl was bound over on charges of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated with a $500 bond. Howard Hunt and other defendants faced related charges and license suspensions. New case filed involved Klare T Butterworth estate matter. Four Algona youths aged 11 to 15 were sent to juvenile court for grand and petty larceny, Alfred Coleman charged with grand larceny, others as accessories. Chief Moulds reported two burglaries on the EB H Wray residence with $36 total stolen in recent weeks, traced to local spending. Read the Want Ads.
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Fred M. Hudson
Pocashontas
Kossuth District Court
Pierce Desmond
Harrington and
Inowe
Hutchison and Hutchison
Pierce
Dermand
Algona
Ruth Nasby
Clinton B. Nasby
Icena WN. Wibben
Tony C. Wibben
Julius Erstl
Kossuth Grand Jury
Howard
Hunt
Laverne
Ip. A. Dawson’s Court
Harry Hart
St. Benedict
Orrville Beresford
Jake Mehmen
Waterloo
Hart
Beresford
Mehmen
Henry Helmers
Dawson
Klare T. Butterworth
Oscar H. Butterwoath
D .R. Spieker
Claude Spieker
John Stebritz
Tom Stebritz
Darrell Johnson
Alfred Coleman
Kossuth
Justice of Peace Ip. A. Dawson
John Stebrita
Arthur Moulds
EB. H. Wray
South Minnesota
Bhoys
Santa Visit and Kids Show in Titonka Saturday
Children will be entertained and treated Saturday in Titonka with Santa arriving on the street at 1 30 P M followed by a free show for grade school and younger children. The Twin Santa Clauses sponsor the event with the Legion Auxiliary and the Parent Teacher Association hosting the occasion at the Tyke Theatre.
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Titonka
Santa Claus
Santa
Santa Clauses
Bartlett
O iSouis
Raymond
The
Legion
Legion ‘Auxiliary
Parent-Teacher Association
Tyke Theatre Management
Fathers and Sons Banquet at Methodist Church
The Father and Son banquet drew about 90 attendees. Rev L G Gartner presided, Miss Dougan led high school boys in music, and toasts were given by Carl Schneider R L Krantz Vernon Larson Homer Downs and Kenneth Krantz. Rev Harvey Nelson spoke on Since I Have a Son, praising the event as one of the best programs and meals in memory.
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Methodist Church
L. G. ‘Gartner
Dougan
Fathers and Sons
Carl Schneider
R. L. Krantz
Vernon Larson
Homer Downs
Kenneth Krantz
Kenneth
Krantz
iRev
Harvey Nelson
LaVerne
Brunson at Lions Club Highlights Highway Safety
Allen Brunson of Van Ness and Brunson spoke at a Lions Club luncheon, detailing American highway death tolls and urging greater safety. He cited brisk increases in fatalities despite better roads and cars, arguing drivers are the main threat and predicting one in twenty in a twenty person group may die in a highway crash within five years.
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Allen Brunson
van Ness
Brunson
United States
Dead Rabbits Hit by Tularemia in Southern Towa
Hunters report numerous dead rabbits across southern Towa, with Tularemia identified as the likely cause. Authorities caution to avoid handling carcasses and to report unusual animal deaths.
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Towa
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